I have been playing some Atari 50. It’s part game, part documentary, part interactive museum highlighting some slices over the 50 year history of Atari. It is packed with high resolution scans of ...

Best Games - Retro Game Challenge (GameCenter CX: Arino no Chosenjo) For the last twenty years the show GameCenter CX has played on Fuji TV One in Japan. It’s a comedy show where Shinya Arino atte...

I don’t really have a style. I have a way that I draw or model or design characters, but I don’t really have a style. I was watching an artist on YouTube, something I do quite a lot, and they were ...

I had reason to think recently about the way that art is taught. I think there are a lot of art teachers, instructors, and professors out there that do a fantastic job. You can even find many of t...

Best Games - Shatterhand (Tokkyū Shirei Solbrain) By 1991 the last nails were already being driven into the coffin of the NES. The console wouldn’t actually be discontinued for years, and in its h...

I hope you have, or have had, a good Thanksgiving. If you are American, and you have your Thanksgiving one week before Christmas or Hanukkah or whatever, what are you doing. Spread your family holi...

I’m fighting a battle against pixels and I’m losing. Maybe I’m winning. It’s hard to tell. My pixel art game project is sort of stuck, but the wheels are still spinning. This is the problem wit...

Best Games - Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Treasure of Tarmin The Intellivision video game console started development in 1977. The state of consumer processors in 1977 wasn’t really geared toward...

Recently, I tried drawing on actual paper. I mean, this isn’t a new thing. I used to draw on paper. I still scratch things out on paper all the time. Just rough notepad sketches when I’m testing ou...

An update from the writing front. I only have one story out for submission as I type this (though when you read this, it will probably be at least two). So that isn’t great. But I did enter a new s...